What a wonderful yet very powerful read. David is betrothed to Hella, he is an American living in Paris waiting for his lover to join him. A chance meeting at a Paris bar with a young attractive Italian, Giovanni, results in David questioning values that he has always believed to be true. He takes a...
I heard about the movie, but had no idea there was a companion book to it. "In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck’s f...
If Beale Street Could Talk is sublime. For those who saw the movie, not everything in the novel stays the same, there are some scenes that I assume were cut for time. I thought that the way this ended was pretty perfect though. This book is told from the POV of 18 year old Tish. She is dealing wit...
Early in this novel, Baldwin devotes a few pages to a humorous comparison of the ways French, Swiss and Italian border guards behave: the French being rude and inefficient, the Swiss intensely serious, efficient and systematic, the Italians rather surprised that one had bothered to visit their count...
But I don’t care how many times you change your ways, what’s in you is in you, and it’s got to come outI know why this book sat on my shelf for so long. I read Giovanni’s Room several years ago, and while I loved James Baldwin’s writing, I really did not care for the story, particularly the way it e...
"So what can we really do for each other except--just love each other and be each other's witness?" When I finished Another Country, it brought tears to my eyes. There's so much suffering exquisitely depicted alongside glimmers of love and beauty, such whole, flawed characters. Like the recently r...
There they (police officers) stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun. Terrible how much this text is still relevant,...
Broke my heart. Baldwin is an amazing writer. The beginning and end were most vivid for me. I'm struggling with the words for how this book made me feel, but I couldn't put it down. Everyone's story was fascinating, every main character felt fleshed out and relevant to me.
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin’s controversial second novel, is a clenched fist, a bucket of sour grapes, a weeping work of art. A compact little tale of societal alienation and forbidden love (and lust), time has not dimmed its lights or smoothed its edges. Not one iota. Baldwin’s most well-known...
This play has been on my mind – has been bugging – for several years, γράφει ο Baldwin για το συγκεκριμένο έργο το οποίο βασίζεται σε πραγματικό γεγονός, στη δολοφονία του μαύρου νεαρού Emmett Till το 1955, υπόθεση που σφηνώθηκε στο μυαλό του συγγραφέα και μεταμορφώθηκε σε θεατρικό έργο κατά την κρί...
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